Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Technion study reveals how neurons push toxic proteins onto neighbors, offering new insight into how Alzheimer’s spreads.

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...

Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...

Menopause is linked to a loss of grey matter in regions involved with memory and emotion, study suggests.